The Winners and Losers of the 2018 Summer Box Office

From Avengers: Infinity War to Solo: A Star Wars Story to the indie smashes of the season, we look at the box office winners and losers of summer 2018. Last summer, the domestic box office suffered some of its worst returns in years. Major franchise movies like Transformers: The Last Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales under-performed, while big-budget follies like King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets cost their respective studios hundreds of millions of dollars. Audiences just didn't seem too enthused by what was on...Read more ...

‘Skate Kitchen' Nails Strong Exclusive Launch at Indie Box Office

A pair of Sundance films that got exclusive single-screen releases, Oscilloscope's “Madeline's Madeline” and Magnolia Pictures “Skate Kitchen,” highlighted this weekend's indie box office.
“Madeline's Madeline,” which has a 94 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, had the top per screen average of the weekend with a single-screen total of $20,225. Written and directed by Josephine Decker, the film follows a teen in a physical theater troupe who is encouraged to weave her troubled relationship with her mother into her stage work, leading to unforeseen consequences.
“Skate Kitchen” sat just behind...Read more ...